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Date:      Tue, 04 Jun 2002 18:34:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mutex.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020604183453.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020604152034.A12108@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On 04-Jun-2002 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:09:20PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> Not tested on Alpha SMP because SMP Alpha kernels aren't stable under
>> load now.  I've had various lockups or weird NULL pointer bugs (as if a
>> thread variable passed down the stack suddenly became NULL) for a month
>> or two now.  SMP sparc64 doesn't boot atm, hence no testing on it.
> 
> A month or two is a long time for such serious breakage to go unfixed.
> You don't have any idea where this is happening?  Getting down to only
> pentiumpro and later SMP boxes working things have a good chance of going
> out broken in 5.0-RELEASE.

I'm not superhuman and have been busy doing other work-related stuff for
a while now.  Hopefully I can get some cycles to test why alpha SMP is
hosed in the very near future.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/

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